<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Rafael Espíndola <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafael.espindola@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafael.espindola@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">>> Agreed. If ld64 can drop support for .o produced by the old gcc that<br>
>> would be awesome. Failing that, what is really needed is<br>
> Because of static archives, the linker has to support old .o files for quite a while. I also don’t know when clang starting getting this right.<br>
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</div>r123585 (Jan 16 17:19:34 2011) I think.<br>
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> Also, this seems like linker complexity for a very unlikely optimization (two named constants with same value). If someone cares about this level of optimization, they can use LTO which will do all the constant merging in LLVM.<br>
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>> LLVM should only put constants in mergeable sections only if (among<br>
>> other things) they require only symbols that start with 'l' or 'L'.<br>
> Not sure what you mean here. What is "requiring”? Are we talking about this code in TargetLoweringObjectFileMachO::SelectSectionForGlobal()<br>
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</div>I mean "the correspoinding symbol name will start with".<br>
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> if (Kind.isMergeableConst()) {<br>
> if (Kind.isMergeableConst4())<br>
> return FourByteConstantSection;<br>
> if (Kind.isMergeableConst8())<br>
> return EightByteConstantSection;<br>
> if (Kind.isMergeableConst16())<br>
> return SixteenByteConstantSection;<br>
> }<br>
><br>
> Can’t we just change the first ‘if’ to:<br>
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> if (Kind.isMergeableConst() && !GV.hasName()) {<br>
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> That should leave any “named” constants in the __const section instead of moving them to the __literal section. (Though I don’t actually know if anonymous constants were given some name earlier so hasName() is useless at this point).<br>
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</div>That seems too strict. A private GV can have a name, but it will be<br>
printed with a 'L' or 'l' prefix, so it should not be a problem.<br>
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In other words, it looks like you want something like the attached patch.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Rafael, would it be more correct to use hasLocalLinkage() instead of hasPrivateLinkage() ?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Cheers,<br>
Rafael<br>
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